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Reality bites for unknowns of Eden

The group of 23 strangers was torn apart by sexual jealousy, hunger and feuds. More than half the cast quit within the first few weeks and none is yet as famous as they’d hopedCHANNEL 4

They hoped to become reality TV stars, fought over by agents bearing lucrative contracts.

But the ten hardy souls who made it through the 12 months of Channel 4’s Eden in the “wilderness” of the Scottish Highlands have emerged from isolation to learn that only four episodes have been shown, the last of them seven months ago.

The project, run by Keo Films, saw 23 strangers cut off from the rest of the world and left to fend for themselves in a wild corner of the Ardnamurchan peninsula in the West Highlands.

Participants in the show — intended as a combined reality TV programme and sociology experiment — were challenged to create a new model of society. But just as in the biblical Eden, temptation proved too…

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